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7 TVR sports cars from the Grantura to the Sagaris
TVR began with Trevor Wilkinson’s 1947 special, and within ten years the company had built more than 100 Granturas. Over the decades that followed, the…
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6 Power Wagon versions from the 1946 WDX to today’s Ram 2500
Dodge sold its first civilian Power Wagon in 1946, and the name has sat on a four-wheel-drive Dodge or Ram for most of the eight…
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How Chevrolet’s Blue Flame six reached 150 hp in the 1953 Corvette with three Carters and a truck cam
Chevrolet gave the 1953 Corvette exactly one engine, and it wasn’t a V8. Under the hood sat the Blue Flame six, a 235-cubic-inch inline six…
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7 Farmall tractors from the 1924 Regular to the 1952 Super M
International Harvester introduced the McCormick-Deering Farmall in 1924. Over the next three decades, the Farmall name spread from one gray row-crop tractor to a whole…
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8 Oldsmobile Rocket V8 displacements from the 1949 303 to the 1968 455
Oldsmobile sold its first V8 as the Rocket from 1949, and by 1968 the Oldsmobile Rocket V8 had grown from 303 cubic inches to 455.…
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7 Jaguar XJ saloons from the 1968 Series 1 to the 2009 X351
Jaguar launched the XJ saloon in September 1968, and the name lasted through several complete redesigns. Each Jaguar XJ series below changed something real: the…
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Earl Muntz built about 198 Muntz Jets from 1950 to 1954 and lost money on every one
Earl “Madman” Muntz knew how to sell used cars and television sets, yet his own car never made him a dime. Between 1950 and 1954,…
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Nudie Cohn gave Webb Pierce’s 1962 Pontiac Bonneville revolver door handles and a silver-dollar interior
Webb Pierce’s Bonneville is a white 1962 Pontiac convertible that a Hollywood tailor turned into a rolling stage costume. Nudie Cohn covered its cabin in…
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A Nash-Healey finished third overall at Le Mans in 1952, beaten only by two Mercedes-Benz 300 SLs
In June 1952, a Nash-Healey driven by Leslie Johnson and Tommy Wisdom finished third overall in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Only the two…
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8 Honda cars that proved what Honda engineers could do
Honda’s 606cc S600 roadster made 57 horsepower in 1964, which works out to about 94 horsepower per liter. The Honda S600 showed how the company’s…
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